Date on which a federal judge, citing racial discrimination in the grand jury foreperson selection process, reversed the conviction of Albert Woodfox for the 1972 stabbing death of a guard at the Louisiana State Penitentiary known as Angola: 2/26/2013

Of the grand jury forepersons judicially selected in Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish between 1980 and 1993, percent who were black: 18.5

Days after the federal judge's ruling that Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said his office would appeal in the case that has come to be known as the "Angola 3" for the number of inmates held in prolonged solitary confinement following the guard's death: 1

Date on which Amnesty International urged Caldwell not to appeal, citing longstanding human rights concerns related to the convictions and confinement: 2/27/2013

Year in which Woodfox and fellow Angola 3 inmates Herman Wallace and Robert Hillary King, who were all originally imprisoned for robbery, founded the Angola chapter of the Black Panther Party and organized against segregation, inhumane working conditions, rape, and sexual slavery: 1971

Year in which Woodfox and Wallace were initially convicted in Miller's death: 1973

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